pyarrow.compute.ascii_center

pyarrow.compute.ascii_center(strings, /, width, padding=' ', lean_left_on_odd_padding=True, *, options=None, memory_pool=None)

Center strings by padding with a given character.

For each string in strings, emit a centered string by padding both sides with the given ASCII character. Null values emit null.

Parameters:

stringsArray-like or scalar-like

Argument to compute function.

widthint

Desired string length.

paddingstr, default “ “

What to pad the string with. Should be one byte or codepoint.

lean_left_on_odd_paddingbool, default True

What to do if there is an odd number of padding characters (in case of centered padding). Defaults to aligning on the left (i.e. adding the extra padding character on the right).

optionspyarrow.compute.PadOptions, optional

Alternative way of passing options.

memory_poolpyarrow.MemoryPool, optional

If not passed, will allocate memory from the default memory pool.